“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. – J Robert Oppenheimer.

Medieval Council Tax is calculated on the value of a property.
So any future revaluations, how ever unlikely, could take the value of the panels into account as they are fixed to the property !
Can you imagine the fury if it tips households into higher bands !

Oh that would be so funny. After all, they are causing an increase in everyone else’s energy costs. It has gone quiet on the suggestion of a grid access fee for those who generate their own electricity to cover their reduced contributions to grid maintenance.

Yet another current advert – this time for the Six Nations – offers a parallel. In the ad for the Irish team a female supporter offers this fact: “We [the Irish] invented the submarine, and built the Titanic!” One and the same thing, surely?

I think it’s safe to predict that “charities” will make an appearance in this game….

There is already a business rates avoidance scheme on empty properties that exploits charity status – expect some enterprising lawyers to draft up something that gets panels zero’d ….

There’s farmers around here coining it without paying business rates on their STOR generators I suspect…

If anybody’s got a few spare minutes and knows of a local STOR scheme – check if it’s registered for business rates…. I have a suspicion that if the generators are skid mounted – they are classed as “mobile” and thus not taxed…..

“…Energy is the lifeblood of the economy. The primary objective of the energy sector is to supply cost-effective energy to the broader economy, allowing it to grow and increase the standard of living of its citizens.

Artificially pumping up employment in the energy sector per se – and thereby driving down productivity, while driving up costs to the broader economy – is counterproductive to overall net job creation and economic growth. It is a sign of increased efficiency if more energy can be produced and delivered with fewer workers, because this expands the overall output potential of the economy…”

Every TWh of [intermittent] electricity delivered by solar pv takes 80X the number of man-hours than the [24/7] electricity delivered by a nuclear power plant: